Sub, ships making San Diego new home port

Two Navy surface ships and one submarine will arrive Friday in San Diego, their new home port.

The Chief and the Warrior, both anti-mine ships, will drop anchor at San Diego Naval Base after a monthlong passage from their former home of Ingleside, Texas, said Lt. Cmdr. Brad Fagan, a spokesman for the Naval Surface Warfare Command.

The pair are the first of eight such ships moving here after the Ingleside-based Mine Warfare Command was merged with the Antisubmarine Warfare Command. The new headquarters will be at Point Loma Naval Base.

Meanwhile, the attack submarine San Francisco also will be stationed in Point Loma. The sub, formerly based in Guam, had undergone more than three years of repairs in Bremerton, Wash., after a collision with an underwater mountain.